Imports of Digital Goods Face Test

The Wall Street Journal (online registration required): The clash over protecting a free-flowing Internet while also fighting online piracy has shifted to an unlikely and largely unknown setting: a legal battle about teeth-alignment devices at a federal trade body.

A U.S. appeals court this month will consider whether federal tariff law gives the International Trade Commission the power to order a halt to foreign digital transmissions into the U.S. when those communications infringe U.S. intellectual property. Traditionally, the ITC has intervened only to stop the importation of physical goods.

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